SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2007--Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN)
today announced it has secured exclusive rights to offer its customers
a free download of a portion of author Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand
Splendid Suns," his much-anticipated follow-up to "The Kite Runner."
Beginning today, Amazon.com customers can visit www.amazon.com/books
to download and read portions of the new book as well as listen to a
recent exclusive podcast interview Amazon.com conducted with Hosseini
about his success with "The Kite Runner" and the expectations of "A
Thousand Splendid Suns."

"This book is a heart-wrenching, thought-provoking book that we
wanted all of our customers to have the experience of sampling prior
to the book's availability," said Daphne Durham, books managing editor
at Amazon.com and leader of the company's Significant Seven
book-reviewing septet. "'The Kite Runner' was a huge hit with our
customers and we expect many of our customers will want to experience
the deep and emotional story Hosseini tells in 'A Thousand Splendid
Suns.'"

Early feedback from Amazon.com customer reviewers is
overwhelmingly positive.

"Khaled Hosseini has succeeded in capturing many important
historical and contemporary themes in a way that will make your heart
ache again and again," said Donald Mitchell, Amazon.com No. 3 customer
reviewer. "Why will your reaction be so strong? It's because you'll
identify closely with the suffering of almost all the characters, a
reaction that's very rare in a modern novel."

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" chronicles 30 years of Afghan history
in a story of family, friendship, faith and the salvation to be found
in love. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about
love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly
together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the
ever-escalating dangers around them - in their home as well as in the
streets of Kabul - they come to form a bond that makes them both
sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately
alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next
generation. Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move
her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end
it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to
survival.

Amazon.com customers can pre-order the hardcover edition of "A
Thousand Splendid Suns" for just $15.57, a savings of 40 percent, or
$10.38 off the cover price. The book is eligible for free Super Saver
Shipping and Amazon Prime.

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